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RELIGION NEWS: 'Back to Church' mission under way -- Weekly religion rail, with a movement to get people back in church, this week in religious history, getting to know Saint Brigid, and more.

PLANK IT: Seafood cooked on boards offers flawless grilling, great taste -- It’s easy to get frustrated with grilling seafood. The heat is hard to control, and the shrimp, fish or scallops come out rubbery. Or, you’ve over-amped on the smoke. Chefs around Seattle discovered a solution from the Northwest American Indians: Grill it on wooden planks. By Jim Hillibish of The Repository.

BOILING POINT: Liberated from menu tyranny -- So we’re window shopping for a eating place in beautiful Charlottesville, Va., home of Tom Jefferson’s University of Virginia. The blinking neon sign attracted us: “Buena Comida Mexicana.” That’s it. Good Mexican Food. They could have used “Great Mexican Food,” but this spot was too humble for that. By Jim Hillibish of The Repository.

GRILLING TIP: How to avoid rubber bird -- Chicken is easy to wreck on the grill. We’ve all endured that dry, rubbery stuff, the result of overcooking. By Jim Hillibish of The Repository.

GARY BROWN: Checking in on a patient while checking out at the store -- It used to be that a wait in line meant you made new friends. Today, however, in the age of cell phones, you’re more likely to be eavesdropping accidentally on a checkout line conversation than engaging in one.

LLOYD GARVER: The annoyance police - In these very serious times, it seems that it's appropriate to get rid of some of the silly or outdated laws that are still on the books. I'm talking about things such as it being illegal in Oklahoma to tease dogs by making ugly faces, Michigan's law that forbids a wife from having her hair cut without her husband's approval and the Sullivan's Island, S.C., law that prohibits people from "singing, whistling or hooting" if it annoys somebody else. Wait a minute. That last one isn't an old law. It's an ordinance that was just passed by the South Carolina town.

KEVIN HAAS: Science not up to TV standards - I have a bone to pick with science. Once again scientists are developing groundbreaking technology previously seen only in movies and television, and once again it’s not a flying DeLorean, or a Hoverboard or any of the things I’ve been waiting for since I was a child.

Entertainment

FARR SIDE: Sheryl Crow turns down a new road with ‘100?Miles’ - When Sheryl Crow first began a solo music career, she was leaving Las Vegas. Now, if her GPS is right, she is about 100 miles from Memphis. By David T. Farr.

BRIAN REGAN: Good, clean fun with Brian Regan - Brian Regan isn’t known as a political comedian – and don’t worry, he’s not giving up his rants about Pop-Tarts, pirates or himself to become a pundit. By Chad Berndtson.

SNEAK PREVIEW: 'Salt,' 'Ramona and Beezus' and other new movies -- A lot of male sexual fantasies will be answered when Angelina Jolie comes packing heat of all kinds in "Salt." And Disney brat Selena Gomez and newcomer Joey King play siblings in an adaptation of Beverly Cleary’s series of popular children’s novels. By Al Alexander of The Patriot Ledger.

FLICKS: Jolie brings nothing to tired plot of 'Salt' -- It’s not that I hate Angelina Jolie. It’s just I have an unending, roiling, burbling, barely contained dislike for everything that features her face or voice — except for “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” hence referred to as “MMS,” because everyone has an exception to their own rules. By John Meo of the Norwich Bulletin.

MOVIE REVIEW: A 'Salt' on your senses -- Naming an action hero after a condiment only invites all kinds of stomach-wrenching word play. With "Salt," I will show restraint and refuse to pepper this review with comments that don't cut the mustard. By Bob Tremblay of the MetroWest Daily News.

LITTLE BIG TOWN: Little Big Town builds big career, little by little -- The country quartet Little Big Town did not have a straight shot to stardom. It took years of touring, scraping and working side jobs to get to the place they are now. Where they are now is headlining fairs and festivals with opening act Julianne Hough. By Brian Mackey of the State Journal-Register.

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EDITORIAL: A victim of Fox News -- Shirley Sherrod was caught in the crossfire between the NAACP and the tea party movement. The White House overreacted to the howling on the right, and the Agriculture Department fired her. From the MetroWest Daily News.

EDITORIAL: Another broken promise from Blagojevich - It's all too fitting that Rod Blagojevich would break one more promise before his corruption trial ends. After months of blustering and blathering about his innocence to every New York media personality who would have him, guaranteeing he would sit on the witness stand and tell the truth, about how — in the words of his lawyer, Sam Adam Jr. — he was “honest as the day is long,” Blagojevich announced Wednesday he will not testify in his own defense. By The State Journal-Register of Springfield, Ill.

MICHAEL WINSHIP: Don’t you know there’s a war on? - Whatever it is we’re trying to do in Afghanistan — fighting the so-called global war on terrorism, waging a counterinsurgency, nation building — it isn’t working.

Business

DAVE RAMSEY: Start a small business while keeping first job? - Weekly financial Q&A, with advice on starting a small business on the side and when to get long-term-care insurance.

FINANCIAL LEGISLATION: Financial regulation bill to assist homeowners who lost jobs -- Nylton Andrade hopes the federal bill President Obama signed Wednesday will help him and his wife keep their home. By Erik Potter of The Enterprise.
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